Dec
06
….Take a look at this picture of Wallace and Grommit for example. Just a nice, straight forward picture of the lovable duo. Or is it? Because, if you know what Steganography is, you may then suspect that there is more to this picture than meets the eye! If I told you there is another image …
Sep
23
So, as I often do when a remake comes out (that is, one that looks vaguely interesting and perhaps worth watching and not Arthur) I decided to watch the old 1979 mini-series of John LeCarré’s spy book, ‘Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy’. Starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley (I love Alec Guinness), and Bernard Hepton as …
Aug
13
Finding radio DJs that you can bear listening to for more than a few minutes can be a challenge these days. Did I say ‘these days’? Perhaps I should have just missed off ‘these days’ altogether. DJs are not really known for their ability to entertain beyond making asinine observations about Daily Mail stories, or …
Apr
16
“I race cars, play tennis, and fondle women, BUT! I have weekends off, and I am my own boss.” So says Arthur Bach, playboy millionaire as played by Dudley Moore in the 1981 film. As a 12 year-old boy I remember watching this at Christmas and enjoying it. Although one could hardly call it a …
Mar
24
When Sam Raimi wrote and produced the film ‘The Evil Dead’ in 1981, he made what was, up to that point, one of the most frightening horror films ever. Sitting alongside big-budget horror movies such as ‘The Exorcist’, ‘The Omen’ and, arguably, ‘Alien’, it was no simple thing to compete on a low budget, but …
